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It's funny how many software developers got into it due to being bored in class with a TI-83 and randomly trying to create programs.
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But isn't that just how the world works? As kid I got ERR:MEMORY allot while trying to create games. It was until I started to read a C book which said "We will not use goto in this book. It is a dangerous function that can lead to memory leaks. For example if you jump out of a function, said function will stay in memory because it never finishes." That was the light bulb moment for my TI-Basic problems. For me the b…
No, it's not how the world works. The warning about "goto" in C is about memory leaks due to misusing malloc/free. The issue with TI-Basic is about the interpreter using a stack for if/else/end blocks. In normal programming languages, If-Then-Else is made up of a conditional branch to get you into either the "If" part or the "else" part, and a jump to skip you past the "else" part to the "end if" part. There is no st…
There‘s HP calculator guys and TI guys. Around the age of 17 I spent lots of time programming my HP28s calculator in a Forth like language that had symbolic mathematics, lots of ideas from Scheme (closures, functions as first class arguments, recursion). It felt like magic dealing with concepts I hadn’t seen in the C compiler on my Amiga or later in Turbo Pascal. But I saw these concepts later in Mathematica and was…
This made me wonder about Boris Cherny's professional career pre-Claude Code, so I did a customary "Boris Cherny wiki" Google. I'm shocked to learn he doesn't have a Wikipedia page! Is this my Hacker News bias? He's a ubiquitous online topic and has had an outsized impact on the world over the last year, but maybe I don't understand Wikipedia's criteria for biographical articles. I have a conspiratorial suspicion tha…
This made me wonder about Boris Cherny's professional career pre-Claude Code, so I did a customary "Boris Cherny wiki" Google. I'm shocked to learn he doesn't have a Wikipedia page! Is this my Hacker News bias? He's a ubiquitous online topic and has had an outsized impact on the world over the last year, but maybe I don't understand Wikipedia's criteria for biographical articles. I have a conspiratorial suspicion tha…
Would be crazy if the Ilya S he thanks in the first page was Ilya Sutskever